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and sarah palin was new. and part of our challenge was to talk to these national operatives in the campaign and other people around sarah palin who are literally amongst the only people we know who have had exposure to her behind the scenes to see what she's like when she's not on tv or giving a speech. they met with sarah palin two of john mccain's advisors -- they'd never met her. she was a stranger to them and they were asked by john mccain to talk to her in arizona before he meets with her. and to talk to her about what this job is going to be like if they offer her the position. one of the things they discuss with her in that meeting late at night on the eve of john mccain's selection was the importance of her understanding that even though she would remain as a sitting governor of alaska she needed to understand her focus needed to be on the national campaign. that she was basically an appendage of the campaign. that she would probably not get back to alaska unless there was some sort of natural disaste
and sarah palin was new. and part of our challenge was to talk to these national operatives in the campaign and other people around sarah palin who are literally amongst the only people we know who have had exposure to her behind the scenes to see what she's like when she's not on tv or giving a speech. they met with sarah palin two of john mccain's advisors -- they'd never met her. she was a stranger to them and they were asked by john mccain to talk to her in arizona before he meets with her....
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let me take one thing she said about sarah palin and the coverage of sarah palin in the book. she talked about alaska. sarah palin from your reporting was consumed with how she was perceived in alaska during this election. >> guest: she was. one of the challenges and writing about sarah palin was she had never been much involved in the national politics as the governor of alaska. very few people in the national or political media life had dealings with sarah palin so it was unusual because normally the top or bottom of the ticket, people in washington and journalism circles no sarah palin was new support of the job was to talk to the national operatives on the campaign and other people around sarah palin who are literally to this day among the only people we know who had exposure behind-the-scenes to see what she's like when she's not on tv or giving a speech. they met with sarah palin, two of john mccain's said pfizer's. they had never met her. she was a stranger to them and they were asked to talk to john mccain in arizona and to talk about what this job is going to be like
let me take one thing she said about sarah palin and the coverage of sarah palin in the book. she talked about alaska. sarah palin from your reporting was consumed with how she was perceived in alaska during this election. >> guest: she was. one of the challenges and writing about sarah palin was she had never been much involved in the national politics as the governor of alaska. very few people in the national or political media life had dealings with sarah palin so it was unusual...
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sarah palin they did not know her bridge was a stranger to them. one of things they discussed with her late in the meeting was the importance of her understanding that even though she would remain the sitting governor of alaska, she needed to understand her focus needed to be on the the national campaign. she was basically an appendage of the campaign and would not get back to alaska until there -- unless there was some sort of natural disaster, and she did not to be focused on her home state needs but on the national ticket. on the point of view of the kaine staff, she did not of a -- up to that from the point -- from the point of view of the mccain is that, she did not live up to that. there were concerned that there was an absence of mccain-palin and yard signs in alaska. it is spent the time complaining to a -- the campaign they spent -- they spent atime complaining that there was not enough of an effort in alaska. she was not being allowed to talk to local reporters, and like a lot of governors, she would give out hurt mobile or two local repo
sarah palin they did not know her bridge was a stranger to them. one of things they discussed with her late in the meeting was the importance of her understanding that even though she would remain the sitting governor of alaska, she needed to understand her focus needed to be on the the national campaign. she was basically an appendage of the campaign and would not get back to alaska until there -- unless there was some sort of natural disaster, and she did not to be focused on her home state...
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what were the reasons that you feel he was elected over senator mccain and governor sarah palin. what made him the better candidate in the eyes of the people who elected him. >> well, i don't -- it was really because he was the better candidate, not because he was the better person when it came to his policies. he was certainly a better candidate 100 percent. first and foremost he was advocating for change from the old um, i think it was called out of touch in the name of the ad about john mccain was out of touch, he's just like bush, he has a country club. all country people are bad. so he's a member of a country club, he rides a golf carts, he's a bad man, john mccain is like bush, the old white male. that's what the republican party was seen as an he had a great job saying at the same time and that's, i agree to change washington for the better, he said a change you can believe then and the great thing is change can be interpreted as progress or if can be changed for the worse and he's used the term change. he really has changed a lot of things and he changed his use of a lot
what were the reasons that you feel he was elected over senator mccain and governor sarah palin. what made him the better candidate in the eyes of the people who elected him. >> well, i don't -- it was really because he was the better candidate, not because he was the better person when it came to his policies. he was certainly a better candidate 100 percent. first and foremost he was advocating for change from the old um, i think it was called out of touch in the name of the ad about...
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these being folks like newt gingrich or sarah palin who have contracts with fox news to provide commentary. but who are nonetheless still active in politics raising money to give to republican candidates. raising money -- the more cynical among us raising money to position themselves for their own prospective races in the case of sarah palin and potentially run for the 2012 republican presidential race. there's no federal communication law that would prohibit anything like this. they are commentators. a. something to consider a lot of people during the campaign season they like to -- they like to assert that one side is getting more -- more airtime than another. but the rules that would prohibit that ostensively, this so-called equal time doctrine only applies to broadcast television. not to cable television. the idea being that the public owns the sort of broadcast airwaves that the networks sort of borrow or use. and that, therefore, they are prohibited from using the airwaves to back a particular candidate. we saw this a little bit when fred thompson the former tennessee senator was act
these being folks like newt gingrich or sarah palin who have contracts with fox news to provide commentary. but who are nonetheless still active in politics raising money to give to republican candidates. raising money -- the more cynical among us raising money to position themselves for their own prospective races in the case of sarah palin and potentially run for the 2012 republican presidential race. there's no federal communication law that would prohibit anything like this. they are...
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palin and nancy pelosi. so it's not a perfect process. we're still working on it. but it's self-correcting. human collectives, the genius of all of us together, can put together better systems of organization than these ego maniacs could and think of how many human beings die for the vanity of a marx, or a lenin, or a mao. so that's the first place we are. humanity has, by an large, passed the age of ideology. although a new ideology could spring up and galvanize the world tomorrow. for now, the ology is done. the fact is we have defaulted back to what men and women have always fought about -- blood and belief, faith and ethnicity. where else are we? this is very important. we are at the bare beginning of the post-colonial era. this isn't a left wing or a right wing pitch. i'm trying to look at things objectively to get beyond our own ideologies, and when you look at history, the european imperial powers, the portuguese have the longest stay, they rule some often misrule, they reform and deform, native socie
palin and nancy pelosi. so it's not a perfect process. we're still working on it. but it's self-correcting. human collectives, the genius of all of us together, can put together better systems of organization than these ego maniacs could and think of how many human beings die for the vanity of a marx, or a lenin, or a mao. so that's the first place we are. humanity has, by an large, passed the age of ideology. although a new ideology could spring up and galvanize the world tomorrow. for now,...
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. >> duque glenn beck and ann coulter and sarah palin, are they important to the conservative movement, the books that they write? >> they are important provocateurs, as popularizers of conservative ideas. i think the media celebrities and conservatives today get something of a bum rap because many of them, and certainly the best of them are actually quite -- if you look at rush limbaugh for example or even glenn back. these are people who are not winging it. these are people who were taking ideas very seriously, who are reading conservatives books and can-- conservatism and us-backed gift for taking the ideas of intellectuals and retailing them. along the way of course they have to pump them up a bit and entertain. there are millions of listeners, but i think on the whole that is a bargain that conservatives should be happy with. of course, the popular idea is not a substitute worth generating both research and philosophical types of scrutiny about politics. and they are, there is something to the criticism that conservative books have not been as profound as they were in their period
. >> duque glenn beck and ann coulter and sarah palin, are they important to the conservative movement, the books that they write? >> they are important provocateurs, as popularizers of conservative ideas. i think the media celebrities and conservatives today get something of a bum rap because many of them, and certainly the best of them are actually quite -- if you look at rush limbaugh for example or even glenn back. these are people who are not winging it. these are people who...
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he's the one who told sarah palin to be relevant she better move to new york really fast. matter is the old conservative guard and dick armey knows this of all people. >> host: tammy bruce we have about two minutes left. what are you reading? >> guest: a few things. it just suggested to me lawrence of arabia by chris buckley interestingly enough and i want to read more fiction. , a claremont university reading a lot of things of the presidency and clues in the presidential command but more fiction should be on my list for pleasure so lawrence of arabia will be there. >> host: tammy bruce has been our guest from the "l.a. times" book festival her three books very quickly "the new american revolution." "the new thought police." "the death of right and wrong." tammy bruce.com. >> guest: it is a pleasure. >> host: we will take y to our first author piano we are live here on the campus the crowds are starting to gather it is still here in the morning a beautiful california day and you can see the first panel has been seated. . . >> if anyone is tweeting from this panel use the
he's the one who told sarah palin to be relevant she better move to new york really fast. matter is the old conservative guard and dick armey knows this of all people. >> host: tammy bruce we have about two minutes left. what are you reading? >> guest: a few things. it just suggested to me lawrence of arabia by chris buckley interestingly enough and i want to read more fiction. , a claremont university reading a lot of things of the presidency and clues in the presidential command...
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sarah palin, same thing, $400,000. mike huckabee, former governor of arkansaw, $273,000. how you have to raise your eyebrows at that and say that is something to watch going into the campaign. -- mick huckabee, former governor of arkansas, $273,000. these are things you have to watch going into 2012. there is concern about inc endiary rhetoric on both sides, and we've seen a concerted effort with leaders in the tea party movement in particular to clamp down, to self-police. i definitely see signs at these rallies that area -- are a little edgy. i saw one in searchlight, nevada, that said "exterminate the democrats in 2010." nonetheless, i do see far fewer of them, including this week in washington, d.c., i saw a rally, and a lot of the signs were more passe, but there was a sign of this inflammatory rhetoric, that it could hurt the movement. on the other side of the caller's point, term limits are kind of a nonstarter. campaign finance reform, the schumer van-hollen bill, that is one the white house has been supporting, calling out c ongress. so we do see political will f
sarah palin, same thing, $400,000. mike huckabee, former governor of arkansaw, $273,000. how you have to raise your eyebrows at that and say that is something to watch going into the campaign. -- mick huckabee, former governor of arkansas, $273,000. these are things you have to watch going into 2012. there is concern about inc endiary rhetoric on both sides, and we've seen a concerted effort with leaders in the tea party movement in particular to clamp down, to self-police. i definitely see...